1872
Information about 1872
| Centuries: | 18th century - 19th century - 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875 |
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Events of 1872
January - June
- January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for polygamy (28 wives).
- January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
- February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes for "urban renovation".
- March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
- March 5
- George Westinghouse patents the "failsafe" automatic railway air brake.
- The case of Tichborne Claimant decided against the claimant Arthur Orton.
- March 11 - Work began erecting Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales; Located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
- March 26 - Earthquake at Lone Pine, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.2.
- May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States, although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.
- May 22 - Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
- June 14 - Trade unions legalised in Canada. [1]
July - December
- July 4 - Society of Jesus is pronounced illegal in the German Empire.
- September 1 - Group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk Town in British Honduras. British send troops against them.
- October 1 - The Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College began its first academic session. The university was later renamed Virginia Tech
- November 5
- Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley in the U.S. presidential election.
- Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time (on November 18 she was served an arrest warrant and in the subsequent trial she was fined $100 - she never paid the fine).
- November 7 - Mary Celeste sets sail from New York, bound for Genoa.
- November 9 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres (0.3 km²) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
- November 27 - Meteor shower display over France.
- November 29
- Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
- November 29 - Horace Greeley, President Grant's opponent in the United States presidential election, 1872, dies. His electoral votes are divided among several candidates.
- November 30 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland; the result is Scotland 0, England 0.[2]
- December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
- December 13 - The Mary Celeste is found off the coast of Portugal completely void of life.
- December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography.
Undated
- Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph. http://www.worldisround.com/articles/2378/photo2.html
- London Metropolitan Police strike.
- In the aftermath of the War of the Triple Alliance, new government of Paraguay makes peace with Brazil, grant reparations and territorial concessions.
- Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition.
- Foundation of the Kolozsvári Egyetem, the predecessor of the University of Szeged.
- US government geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax in Wyoming.
- Thomas Hardy anonymously publishes his romantic novel ..Under the Greenwood Tree...
- Virginia Tech is established.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1872 MDCCCLXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2625 |
| Armenian calendar | 1321 ԹՎ ՌՅԻԱ |
| Bah' calendar | 28 – 29 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2416 |
| Chinese calendar | 4508/4568-7-18 (辛未年七月十八日) — to — 4509/4569-6-27(壬申年六月廿七日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1588 – 1589 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1864 – 1865 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5632 – 5633 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1927 – 1928 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1794 – 1795 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4973 – 4974 |
| Holocene calendar | 11872 |
| Iranian calendar | 1250 – 1251 |
| Islamic calendar | 1289 – 1290 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiji 0 (明治0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2532 (皇紀2532年) |
| Julian calendar | 1917 |
| Korean calendar | 4205 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2415 |
| * Last year on the Japanese calendar was in use a lunisolar calendar. | |
January - June
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
- January 23 - Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
- January 31 - Zane Grey, American writer (d. 1939)
- February 1 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
- March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- March 24 - J.C. Wienecke, Dutch/German medallist (d. 1945)
- April 29 - Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930)
- May 18 - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)
- May 21 - Henry Warren, Inventor of the first commercially viable electric clock, the Telechron
- May 31
- Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973)
- Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944)
- June 20 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
- June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (d. 1906)
July - December
- July 1 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
- July 4 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (d. 1933)
- July 16 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928)
- August 3 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
- August 9 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
- August 10 - Bill Johnson, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
- August 13 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
- August 15 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, writer, and mystic (d. 1950)
- August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (d. 1898)
- October 11 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
- November 30 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)
- December 21 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
- December 26 - Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967)
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Deaths
January - June
- January 7 - Big Jim Fisk, American financier (b. 1834)
- January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
- March/April Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (b.1803)
- March 20 - William Wentworth, Australian explorer (b. 1790)
- April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
- April 2 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
- June 4 - Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish composer (b. 1819)
- June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
- June 20 - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (b. 1804)
July - December
- July 18 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
- August 19 - Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
- September 10 - Avram Iancu, Romanian Transylvanian insurgent (b. 1824)
- September 13 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
- October 23 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
- November 28 - Mary Somerville, British mathematician (b. 1780)
- November 29 - Horace Greeley, newspaper editor and presidential candidate (b. 1811)
- December 15 - Lady Beaconsfield, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792)
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- March 14 - Henry Joseph Clarke becomes premier[1] of Manitoba, replacing Marc-Amable Girard
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- Sheridan Le Fanu publishes short-story collection In a Glass Darkly.
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- Patrick R. Chalmers, writer (d.1942).
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